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Despite a relative lull in the fighting, the little breakaway country finds itself in a nearly untenable military situation. Its small army of 25,000 is outmanned four to one by the federals. It has no heavy weapons and suffers from chronic ammunition shortages. One of its best brigades has arms for only 3,000 of the 6,000 men on its roster...
...that he might seek South Vietnamese approval for a full halt to U.S. bombing of the North. Assistant Secretary of State William Bundy hinted that a bombing pause would indeed be a key issue at Hawaii. Cyrus Vance, No. 2 man on the Paris negotiating team, emphasized the recent lull in fighting around Saigon, feeding speculation that it might prove to be the reciprocal gesture the U.S. has long demanded from Hanoi...
Though their placards and protests disappeared with June's diplomas, student radicals have hardly let the summertime lull slow their efforts to keep U.S. universities up against the wall. In Chicago, young faculty members and graduate students have founded a New University Conference, postgraduate big brother of the Students for a Democratic Society...
Loss of Confidence. Adding to the rising unease is a slack in the four-year economic boom that, beginning in 1962, thrust Spain into the 20th century world of rapidly rising industrial wages new cars and washing machines, The lull has created unemployment and put a brake on wage increases. Above , it has cost the government the confidence of many businessmen who had always staunchly supported Franco. The government gives the impression of not knowing quite what to do about either the economy or the popular unrest, and this impression is strengthened by the fact that Franco seems to spend...
Then the Ill Wind died down and disappeared. In the lull the crowd which had been held together by the music, shattered, like mercury, into a hundred little globulets...